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1. Programming Array Animation?

   

   Topic by SuperSparkplug · Feb 2019 · Home› Coding, Scripting, Shaders

   Hi there, For one of my projects, I have a bunch of independent cubes arranged in a grid in my environment. During my animation, I'd like the cubes to randomly switch between 2 shaders independently every 5 seconds. however, I have no idea how to do this in Maya nor how to program in Maya (never touched Mel or Python). An…

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   Reply by monster · Feb 2019 · Home› Coding, Scripting, Shaders

   If it's just in Maya use a blend node and animate the Blender property. This won't export to Unity.

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   Reply by RN · Feb 2019 · Home› Coding, Scripting, Shaders

   Here's a suggestion, without programming:Have a UV channel on the cubes that maps them to a single pixel (collapse all UV vertices to the same point). Have a wide texture image with only black and white noise, no grayscale values. Each cube needs to be mapped to a pixel on that texture, not necessarily adjacent pixels…